The discussion about the optimal advertising space is becoming more and more intense. One thing is certain: one-sided relationships between advertisers and publishers are no longer sustainable - full transparency, quality and efficiency are the norm.

Top tech companies who are active in China are set to attend a one-day conference in Beijing, which focusses on the use of Neural Machine Technology (NMT) in the globalization process of Chinese companies. The conference will take place on September 11th and is organized by One Hour Translation (OHT), an online platform which provides translations in more than 100 languages and 3,000 language pairs.

Xandr, AT&T’s advertising and analytics company, and iflix, Southeast Asia’s leading entertainment service, announced that iflix’s brand solutions business, iflix Advertising, will adopt Xandr Monetize, Xandr’s strategic selling platform. As a result of the agreement, advertisers gain access to iflix’s premium brand-safe video inventory and highly-engaged audiences at-scale.

Vue.ai is an inference engine for the retail industry that gives, with its AI retail teams across the globe, access to a central brain that extracts critical data from products and customer behavior.

Retail teams can automate key functions and deliver personalized experiences to each shopper, increasing ROI on every function in the organization, by pulling the power of AI in the hands of every team member across merchandising, buying, styling, cataloging, marketing and more.

The new IDC 2019 Future SMB Pulse survey shows that 84% of SMBs in Asia Pacific (excl. Japan) recognize the need to use digital technologies to make significant changes in their companies' processes and operations to become more competitive. While 39% of those have already started their journey and are at different stages of digital maturity, 42% are just planning to start. The survey reveals further that the top priorities of SMBs in the next 18 months include improving revenue growth, increasing efficiency/productivity, and reducing costs/expenses.

Qlik, a leader in data analytics, just announced Qlik Sense Business, its latest offering supporting its cloud-first, SaaS strategy. The new product is the first and only pure SaaS offering that brings the power of the 3rd generation of data and analytics to small businesses and groups, accelerating their journey to modern analytics more quickly and with greater ROI than any other offering in the market.

Criteo just released findings showing that brand loyalty is up for grabs when it comes to Singaporean consumers. The company’s ‘Why We Buy’ survey revealed that 78% are willing to consider shopping from a new brand across all product categories. ‘Groceries’ (95.8%) and ‘Apparel’ (93.4%) are the top two categories where consumers are willing to do so.

In recent years, developments have taken place that are dramatically changing the role of stationary retail, putting it under pressure and questioning its right to exist.

China’s November 11, also known as Singles Day, is by now the largest e-commerce day in the world, beating the famous Black Friday or Cyber Monday in the U.S. This year, there will be the first Singles Day after the retirement of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who started the sales phenomenon around a decade ago, and now handed the job over to Daniel Zhang.

While artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the top technologies that will change the Singaporean business landscape in the next three years, most organizations in Singapore are still fearful of AI. Are we really talking about Singapore, which comes in third in the World Economic Forum’s list of the most innovative cities in the world?

Zendesk. announced the launch of Gather, a powerful new product that enables companies to provide trusted and transparent support to customers through online community forums. Gather creates a space where customers can engage with each other and company experts to offer guidance and insight beyond what a single customer support agent might be able to handle.

For online retailers, it’s no longer a simple case of bricks vs. clicks anymore. Spoilt for choice these days, consumers are far less loyal to brands and are more likely to try new products. With online retailers facing increasing competition, how can they build brand loyalty and retain customers in today’s marketplace?

Short video clips manage to explain complex content in less than three minutes while entertaining at the same time. To no surprise, they are nowadays often replacing long and unmanageable texts that are usually not read to the end. Best is that they are applicable in almost any context: not only as a marketing or image film, but also in the traditional market communication and internal corporate business world. In addition, they can be spread through a variety of channels, such as YouTube, your own company website or Facebook.

CastingAsia, an influencer marketing technology solutions provider and part of AnyMind Group, announced the launch of cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and cost-per-click (CPC) capabilities on the CastingAsia platform, in a bid to provide a way for marketers to better address the impact that influencer marketing can have on a business.